Is Boeing 787 Really a Dreamliner?

2/15/2012 2:39PM

The Boeing 787 "Dreamliner" was billed as a revolution for travelers, offering a more humid, comfortable cabin and lighting that would lessen fatigue, dry eyes and jet lag. Scott McCartney on Lunch Break looks at the validity of those claims.

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

I ... all all the getting what your gains ... it's all that was ... what the Boeing Dreamliner promising ice as flyers ... this is basically a revolution in passenger comfort on it starts with what the plane is made of ... it ... to you largely built with ... composite materials that are essentially super strong glass ... used in years than ... fighter jets things for some time on the first time on a large scale ... commercial airplane ... it in now let's get to have more humidity in the index happen because I'm not worried about the erosion of aluminum skin ... aam allows you to set a ... pressurized cabin to lower altitude ... some were left at six thousand feet sort of like being in Denver instead of up up I added that the bail ... um which is the pressure is a senior get conventional or what ... and that makes him just feel better in general and in addition to having humidity ... in the cabin sickest and doesn't dry out ... yet it is still drying out this much you don't get it don't get any signs ... to help with the effects of jetlag ... I'm just going to hold general Malays of an airplane trip on a lot of that ... comes because the the the humanity in an airplane cabin on base does not exist in its forty seven percent don't humidity ... your nasal passages and ride out ... he just feels ... crummy get tired ... and feel lousy when you ... when you get off your point writes of this Boeing Dreamliner promising everything from ... Pakistan that's right now to not having jet lag I wanna know you took a trip or did you go and ... I do feel winded up plans to ... there's there's one Dreamliners flying no long distance flights rate now aam between Frankfurt and in Tokyo ... aam on in a Japanese airline ... was in Tokyo to Frankfurt ... I'm I'm ... I'm devastated said ... it's clearly better it's a it's a marginal improvement but it's not a magic carpet ride years on an airplane ... um I I think people are going ... to allow passage that ... he didn't feel a lot different ... and so I'm not sure it's a keeper to beat this when it ... is ... interesting disappointed in a revolution how many of these ... revolutionary ... plane so they're rolling out and how thinly then it starts him on a mass scale Scott ... the alliance in order to sign a peace plan has been selling plane yesterday and about eight hundred and seventy on the order right now ... on it'll get U S airports later this year ... United's first Dreamliner is is under construction ... on Japan Airlines is ... going to get the green Dreamliners this year stark white Boston and seeing it go ... ANA's can expand puts Seattle and instead say ... I'm so I think this is really gonna be home on a mainstream airplane ... up for travelers ... it's a it's a wide bodied jet about two hundred passengers sort of of of medium size so long distance or I went ... on to connect a lot of markets and that it in ... it is just determined to see new um ... anticipation ... for a new way